Leopard Shot Dead Hours After Killing Woman In Uttarakhand

The leopard was shot dead by forest department shooters hours after it claimed its second victim.

Hours after a leopard claimed its second victim in Uttarakhand's Tehri district in less than a week on Tuesday, it was shot dead by forest department shooters in the evening. The leopard which had terrorised the residents of nearby areas of the district by killing two women in just three days, besides injuring one person over a week ago has been shot dead by forest department shooters S Chauhan and Zaheer Baksh, a forest department official said. 50-year-old Gundri Devi was attacked by the leopard when she was working in a field on Tuesday morning, forest official Devendra Singh Pundir said. The woman's body bearing deep wounds on the neck was found a few hours later in a gorge, he said.